Search results for "人" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • one (信), which consists of a pictograph of "a person" () and an ideograph of "words or speeches" (言), has a meaning of "trusting" or "believing." The second one (仰) consists ...
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  • Suzhou ( t=蘇州 |s=苏州 |p=Sūzhōu ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Called the cradle of Wu culture, Suzhou ...
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  • is composed of gaikoku (外国, foreign country) and hito/jin (, person), so the word literally means "foreign person." Gaijin (外人) is a common abbreviation of gaikokujin. The word was initially not ...
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  • "Man" as expressed in the Chinese character (). The open book stands for Truth, the torchlight signifies Freedom, and the shield protects those two core principles of the University. Yonsei University hosts ...
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  • 山 (mountain), 上 (up) and 下 (down). Another is 休 (rest) from (person) and 木 (tree). These make up a tiny fraction of modern characters. ===Keisei-moji (形声文字)=== These are called "phono-semantic ...
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  • 仚, which combine the logographic "radical" rén ( or 亻 "person; human") with two "phonetic ... Chapter 12 uses xian when mythical Emperor Yao describes a shengren (聖 , "sagely person"): ...
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  • instance, in Japanese, the general noun classifier for humans is nin (), and it is used for counting humans, whatever they are called: Gunter Senft, Systems of Nominal Classification (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University ...
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